The Permalink Problem

I recently moved a few WordPress 2.8.x sites from one server to another. Oddly, when clicking on individual blog entries, every one of them threw a 404 after restoring onto the new server. Index page was fine. Admin pages were fine. But any specific blog page was 404’ing. Hmm.

The Permalink Fix

Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks and clicked Default, then back to Month and name. That’s it.

My Suspicions

I really have no idea, and I don’t have time to investigate. Was it specifically the act of restoring the database (server environment agnostic)? Or was it the other way ’round? Or some other cause?